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Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber
We do that. More on the upper than the chassis, but we have some removable panels there as well. We specifically used bolts on our stacker this year rather than rivet because of concern for fatigue / rivets getting looser over time. Not sure I'd have that same concern with a chassis though.
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We used some captive nuts like that to hold on the cover for our electronics panel last year. It would have gone more smoothly if we had pressed them into the chassis before installing all the other components. We also installed extras. These came into play when, over time, one or two of the captive nuts worked their way out and were lost. Most likely, someone pushed on the screw as it was being removed and pushed the captive nut out of the aluminum.